The Quran describes Muslims as being nice to each other and
harsh against the unbelievers (Q. 48:29 “Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah;
and those with him are forceful against the disbelievers, merciful among
themselves…”). Some may argue that it is wrong and unfair to look only at
the Muslims’ harsh side and make a judgement. This article browses through
Islamic history attempt to see how nice the Muslims have been to each other.
The following is only a small selection of events that come to mind.

The Quran correctly says that reminders benefit the
believers (Q.51:55 “And remind, for indeed, the reminder benefits the
believers”). Let us hope that this reminder helps the unbelievers as well,
although judging from how the West is dealing with Islamic invasion, this only
seems more like a wishful thinking.

The Rashidun (the rightly guided) Era

There are conflicting reports about the nature of Muhammad’s
death. Some Muslims insist it was a natural death while others (including
Muhammad himself ) believed he was poisoned by a Jewish woman (probably a
convert to Islam). Some even accuse Abu Bakr and Omar of plotting to
assassinate Muhammad towards the end of his life. The Muslims’ split regarding
succession surfaced immediately after their leader’s death and remains
unresolved up to the present day. Abu Bakr’s era was marked with the a blood
bath ( the Ridda wars) on a scale Arabia never experienced before.

The
third rightly guided Caliph Uthman, was badly tortured and murdered in a
horrific way by fellow Muslims in the year 656 AD. The uprising against
Uthman was instigated by Ayesha, who accused him of becoming a kafir who
must be killed! Ironically, she later used Uthman’s murder to instigate
another uprising against the next Caliph, Ali, whom she accused of being
not harsh enough against the murderers.

In 656
AD, Ayesha led a failed rebellion against Ali, the fourth rightly guided
Caliph. As a result, over ten thousand Muslims were killed by fellow
Muslims in the battle of ‘the Camel’.

In
657AD, seventy thousands of Muslims were killed by fellow Muslims when
Muaweya led a rebellion against the fourth rightly guided Caliph Ali.

In 659
AD, the fourth rightly guided Caliph Ali had to suppress another rebellion
by fellow Muslims at ‘the Nahrawan’ battle. Again, thousands of Muslims
were killed by fellow Muslims.

The
fourth rightly guided Caliph Ali was murdered by fellow Muslims in 661 AD
while praying in a mosque in Kufa (in Iraq)

Caliph
Al Hassan Ibn Ali ( Muhammad’s grandson) was in effect forced to abdicate
only six months after his reign and was poisoned (instigated by Muaweya)
and died in Medina in 670
AD

Imam
Al Hussain Ibn Ali ( Muhammad’s
youngest grandson) was
killed with vengeance, and beheaded, in 680 AD by Muslim troops acting on
order of Yazid Ibn Muaweya. Seventy three members of his family ( almost
all of Muhammad’s descendants) were also murdered that same day.

The Umayyad’s Era

In 683
AD, 11,000 Muslims were killed by fellow Muslims in Medina. Yazid Ibn Muaweya,
the Umayyad Caliph, dispatched his ruthless general Muslim Ibn Ukba to
suppress an uprising in Medina. The general “istabaha” (an Islamic term
that means “to allow” with no consequent punishment) the city for three
days, allowing his soldiers to do whatever they wished of killing, looting
etc. Muslim Ibn Ukba converted Muhammad’s mosque, which is the second
holiest mosque in Islam, to a stable for his horses to eat, drink, urinate
and defecate (imagine if America does that).

In 684
AD, the Umayyad army proceeded to Mecca. The Kaaba was bombarded with
‘manjaniq’ (a projectile throwing device, or catapult, used to destroy
castles and walls) and burnt.

In 685
AD Caliph Marwan Ibn Al Hakam was killed by fellow Muslims.

Again
in 692 AD, the Umayyad Caliph Abdul Malik Ibn Marwan sent his ruthless
general Al Hajjaj Ibn Yousif who surrounded the city of Mecca and
bombarded Kaaba with ‘manjaniq’.

In 692
Abdulla Ibn Zubair, who was a great Sahaba and highly esteemed figure with
many followers in Medina and Mecca (who recognised him as the true Caliph)
was killed by fellow Muslims.

In 740
AD, the Umayyad Caliph Hisham Ibn Abdul Malik ordered the killing of Zaid
Ibn Ali (a direct descendant of Muhammad). The body was crucified and
placed on the gallows completely naked, some say for years.

In 750
AD, The last Umayyad Caliph, Marwan II was killed by fellow Muslims

The Abbassid’s Era

The
first Abbasid Caliph, Abul Abbas Al Saffah (Arabic for butcher) arranged
for an “Islamic style” dinner party and invited all the remaining Umayyads
for reconciliation and start a new page. He ordered his men to have all of
the Umayyads tied and killed (about 300 of them, all Muslims) before
serving the first course of dinner to the rest of his Muslim guests.

About
a thousand years later, Muhammad Ali of Egypt used the same trick to get
rid of the Mamluks in Egypt. On first of March 1811 AD, Muhammad Ali
invited the Mamluk’s dignitaries for a dinner party at the Citadel in
Cairo and killed all of them. The next day, he ordered his soldiers to
continue the genocide by hunting the rest of the low ranking Mamluks.
Thousands were killed and the Mamluks vanished from Egypt and from
history.

In 813
AD, the Abased Caliph Al Amin was killed by fellow Muslims working under
the command of his brother Al Ma’mun. Scores of Muslims were killed by
fellow Muslims as a result of the years-long power struggle between the
two brothers.

In 861
AD, the Abased Caliph Al-Mutawakkil was killed by a fellow Muslim ( his
guard).

In 862
AD, the Abased Caliph Al-Muntasir was poisoned and killed by fellow
Muslims.

In 866
AD, the Abased Caliph Al-Musta’in was killed by fellow Muslims.

In 869
AD, the Abased Caliph Al-Mu’tazz
was tortured for three days in the scorching heat of midsummer, without
water or food, until died.

In 870
AD, the Abased caliph Al-Muhtadi was killed by fellow Muslims.

In 932
AD, the Abased Caliph Al Muqtadir was slain outside his palace in Baghdad,
by fellow Muslims.

In 934
AD, the Abased Caliph Al Qahir, was blinded and imprisoned by fellow
Muslims. He was released eleven years later to become a beggar in the
streets of Baghdad.

Before
his death in 968 AD, the Abbassid Caliph Al Mutaqi was deposed and blinded
by fellow Muslims.

The
Abbassid Caliph al-Mustakfi,who died in 949 AD, was also deprived of sight
and deposed.

The Ottoman’s Era

The
Ottomans invaded the Middle East, which was already a Muslim land,
resulting in the death of tens of thousands of Muslims at the hands of
fellow Muslims.

In
1389 AD, after the sudden death of the Muslim Ottoman Sultan Murad I, his
Muslim son Bayezid arranged for his Muslim brother Yakub to be strangled
leaving him the sole claimant to throne.

In
1574 AD, Sultan Murad III started his reign by having all his five
brothers killed by strangulating them.

The
Muslim Sultan Mehmed III, who reigned from 1595 to 1603, killed all his
Muslim brothers (that is all 19 of them!) to secure power.

The Recent Futuhat
(Conquests)

In Islamic terminology, it is wrong to call it invasion or
occupation when Muslim armies invade and occupy a non-Muslim country; such
actions are called “futuhat”. The word mean ‘openings’ and suggests that the
country has now been opened to the Muslims and the blessings of Islam.

By Muhammad’s death, Arabia was already an Islam only
region, therefore, all the wars that followed were Muslims vs Muslims wars.
Once I read a Saudi account about the unification of the kingdom and was
shocked to notice that they actually described their occupation of other towns
as ‘futuhat’. The alliance between the house of Saud and the Ikhwan siege
Muslim towns like Ta’if,
Jedda and Mecca, conquered them, killed thousands of civilians and described
their actions as ‘futuhat’. The description suggests that, from the Saudi
perspective, the Muslim residents of those towns were actually not Muslims.
Indeed, the civilian population of those towns were treated badly and thousands
were butchered including women and small children. The Egyptian historian Al
Gabarti gave a hair raising description of the Saudi conquest of Ta’if (1803 AD) and the rest of
Hijaz. The atrocities of the Saudi/Ikhwan alliance were not limited to the
Hijaz region but involved all of Arabia.

Interestingly, the Saudi leadership always sought a
religious advice (fatwa) from the council of alma (scholars) before every
conquest. Eventually, and after all the blood baths, King Abdul Aziz entered
Mecca wearing the robes of Ihram, to comply with Islamic tradition! In
preparation for Hajj in 1925 AD, and in keeping with centuries old tradition,
the Egyptians sent their expensive ‘mahmal’ that included the hand woven
dressing of Ka’aba. As the Egyptians entered the streets of Mecca, they were
attacked and massacred by the Ikhwan who thought the Egyptians were not
perfectly Islamic as they entered Mecca.

In fact, all the atrocities being committed by ISIS today
are replicas of those committed by the Saudi/Ikhwan alliance over the last
couple of centuries. No wonder that ISIS calls its occupation of new towns in
Iraq and Syria as ‘futuhat’.

The Iraq/Iran war of the 1980s claimed far more losses than
the Muslims’ wars against the Persians, the Romans, the Crusaders and the
Mongols put together. The current Sunni Vs Shia conflicts may prove to be even
worse. The recent Saudi interest in nuclear technology has nothing to do with
Israel and everything to do with Iran. It just shows what is in their minds and
how far the Muslims are prepared to go to eliminate the other Muslims.

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